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When he was nine years old, Lincoln was kicked in the head by a horse at the Noah Gordon Mill and was knocked unconscious for several hours. [3] Other injuries or trauma throughout his life include almost severing one of his thumbs with an axe, [4] incurring frostbite of his feet in 1830–1831, [5] being struck by his wife (apparently on multiple occasions), [6] and being clubbed on the head ...
[160] During this time Lincoln did not study law books, but he did spend "night after night in the Supreme Court Library, searching out precedents that applied to the cases he was working on." [160] Lincoln stated, "I love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind."
The farm site where Lincoln grew up in Spencer County, Indiana. Lincoln's mother Nancy Lincoln is widely assumed to be the daughter of Lucy Hanks. [8] Thomas and Nancy married on June 12, 1806, in Washington County, and moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. [9] They had three children: Sarah, Abraham, and Thomas, who died as an infant. [10]
Lincoln would go on to marry Mary Todd Lincoln in 1842 and have four sons with her, but he'd be plagued by bouts of depression throughout his life, even while he was in the White House during the ...
Lincoln's poor regard is due to the perception of Lincoln as having had psychological conditions that made the life of President Lincoln more difficult. [75] Lincoln is seen as having suffered not just from likely mental illness during her husband's presidency, but also from the personal toll that having two of her children die, including one ...
Grace Greenwood Billings (née Bedell; November 4, 1848 – November 2, 1936) was an American woman, notable as a person whose correspondence, at the age of eleven, encouraged Republican Party nominee and future president Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Lincoln later met with Bedell during his inaugural journey in February 1861.
Last week, Reddit user PrestonRoad90 made a post on the platform, asking those who grew up poor to share the things they believe people with more money will never understand about them. It quickly ...
Lincoln would sometimes stay with the McCullough family when he reached the Bloomington, Illinois area of the circuit. McCullough became an ardent supporter of Lincoln beginning with Lincoln's successful run for Congress in 1846. With the start of the Civil War, McCullough petitioned Lincoln to allow him to enlist despite his health problems ...